winemakers are an industry where key positions have traditionally been occupied mainly by men, the situation. if we talk about europe, it began to change only a few decades ago, but in russian winemaking the gender issue has never been an issue. women are at the head of large farms, become the main winemakers of influential companies, successfully sell wine and regularly beat men in winemaking competitions. all this in more detail in the documentary film by daria gonieva.

well, dear experts, today we have a very difficult task, today we have eight bottles of wine, and we taste them blind, you see, we don’t know what’s inside, our task is to determine how many of these wines were made by a woman winemaker, and how many by a man. you know, this is the character of a powerful, assertive, bold, decisive man, but this wine is not for girls, it’s more risky, not every girl will like it, i think, i’m almost sure, that this wine was made by a woman winemaker, because it’s seductive. wine is a drink that is chosen

predominantly by women, such are the consumption statistics: men traditionally prefer beer or, on the contrary, strong alcohol. but wine production, if we talk about europe and france in particular, was considered a man's occupation half a century ago. the example of several famous widows only confirms this fact. the situation began to change only a few decades ago. however, russia is a unique country where you can raise a glass to winemaking without gender bias, women are at the head of large farms, become chief winemakers of influential companies, successfully sell wine and even regularly win men at the samelier competitions. women in this profession give themselves completely. men

have more opportunities abilities to achieve big money, to some extent you feel the birth, wine, it is like a person, when you see how it develops and you, as a mother who raises her child, try to put the best into it, together with a journalist... for whom wine has become a calling and to answer the question: is there a special female taste? recently there was one of the competitions for the best wine and there as usual sits on stage a huge number of men in jackets and practically not a single woman and... i

say, look, you have a stage that does not reflect our reality, because if you go to a winery, you will be met everywhere by women, well, mostly, in the community of wine and people, who is more men or women, who is more active in tastings? well

, how are you living, living well, in the summer it is better than in the winter, yes, it is cold in the winter, my name is svetlana pashkova, and i am the winemaker of the estate mangub, we are in season now. every day of mine starts in the vineyard, we have 10 varieties in total, 30 hectares of vineyard, almost every morning now i start with collecting samples, until you basically go around all 10 varieties, you eat a lot of grapes, so in principle i don’t eat grapes at all in the middle of the year, because i don’t feel like eating them anymore. it seems that we winemakers go, walk around the vineyard, enjoy nature, go to wineries with a glass, drink wine, but this is just the tip of the iceberg, every season for me is a challenge, i i always accept, i got into winemaking, i

accidentally, well, probably everything in life is not accidental, i came to crimea to study at the faculty, chemistry of the nuclear university, that is, i planned to connect my life with nuclear energy, but in fact i really fell in love with crimea, sevastopol, and after graduating from university i stayed to live here, and so it happened by chance that i lived and live now near the wineries of the perovsky estate, naturally i went to work in 2009 at the usadburovsky chemistry. it was with this winery that this love story began, my wine, to the winemaker, and to all this life, i have fifteen pink ones in my hands, despite the fact

that it is and this product has already become very popular, many do not know what it is, it is translated from the french name village sparkling, it differs of course from the classic sparkling wine in that it is the first product of imagination, that is , grape juice is fermented for the first time immediately in this bottle, here on this site i conduct tastings for our guests, people come more even to chat, and not to taste, because many were in other prominent regions, in the old world in... world, they know a lot about wine, and by the way, and the tendency is that recently, our russian wine, russian winemaking, the russian consumer himself chooses it, so this makes me incredibly happy, i think that a winemaker

is probably some kind of calling, that is, it is a good nose. olfactory, and the receptor of the tongue, taste, yes, that is, we do not just drink and enjoy, when we smell, taste wine, we already make some kind of assessment in our head, it probably happened by chance, that we have a more female team, we have an agronomist, and a girl, a winemaker - a girl, of course, we have men in the team. assistants, it seems to me that you can't divide winemaking into women's and men's, in principle it's just very hard work, probably, and completely absorbs you, you can't just make a schedule in winemaking, because if

it needs to be done right now, it needs to be done right now, then you can't put the same defeat on stop, come back the next day to continue, after all, probably we... it's easier for a male winemaker than for a woman, because a winemaker also has a wife who supports his life, children, and a winemaker has women, she comes home with work, continues to do her women's work, and this takes up a lot of time in a winemaker, almost all your time, in principle, my family is here. my colleagues are my family, i spend a lot of time here, well, my family really approves of my profession, of course, because a winemaker in the family is always useful, by the way, in my personal family there were no winemakers, i was the first, but my child does not want

continue my path, he is carried away to another sphere, and i can not say that it upsets me, probably everyone. path, and now we are going down to the basement, which was built by lev sergeyevich galitsin himself, by the way, on this trolley. 5 years ago we went down to the basement to select laboratory samples, natalia vaichuk has been working at the solnechnaya dolina winery for a quarter of a century, and the enterprise itself has existed for almost 140 years. secrets of winemakers: in order for this window to fit tightly, it is coated with a mixture of paraffin and beef fat, by the way, to wash such a bud, a person must climb inside through this tiny hole. i immediately recall the story of kupren's wine barrel. on vacation in yalta after tasting, he climbs into such a bud and gets stuck, and in order to free the master, he

has to be stripped naked and smeared with oil. all golitsyn cellars were built in enemies, so they resemble the shape of the ravine in which they were built. now we will go into the holy of holies, this is a collection, follow me. there are kazy, in which collectible wine is stored. as of today day here are wines from the seventies, unfortunately, the golitsyn collection was taken to the small land during the great patriotic war, then it was returned to the collection cellars of masandra and is still stored there. the idea of ​​​​becoming a winemaker, of course, did not come to me right away, you could say. i saw all this, how it grows, well, and decided to try, and after studying somewhere as an agronomist, so we grew grapes, he

took us to the vineyard since childhood, so my parents advised me, my dad literally 3 months, i realized that this is exactly mine, my calling, in 1999 after graduating from the berdyansk technical school of viticulture winemaking, i got to the plant in the sunny valley. i worked as a laboratory assistant for a year, studied the chemical processes of wine, did analyses, it was all so interesting, when you get one wine, then after some time during the aging process it becomes completely different, the aroma turns into a bouquet, the color from golden turns into amber, from red turns into dark ruby, garnet, the taste and color change, that is, it was so interesting. that i decided to go further, entered the kiev university of food technologies, was

transferred to the position of technologist at the primary winemaking plant, since then, from 2000 to the present moment, i have been in the position of chief winemaker and am engaged in wine production. solnechnaya dolina is generally the history of women's winemaking, we have women working at our enterprise, yes, so this is even felt in the style wine, it is so warm, velvety, you can feel a woman's hand, winemaking - at first, when you come, it seems to you that it is romantic, and then when you plunge into this production, it is really titanic work, when you make wine and you see the end result, and this is what people like, then it spurs you even more, to do better, better and better, to strive. to study all this, therefore, when young students, girls, come to us, they are

generally interested, they like it all. today there is a tear of sparkling meganom bland, twenty-first year of harvest, 24 months on sediment. you know, when you taste this wine, when you receive especially feedback from our customers, then you feel proud that we were able to do it. in our zone, which lev sergeyevich galitsin even said that this zone is only for strong wines, we have proven that we made sparkling wine. solnechnaya dolina is an extreme winemaking zone, we constantly face drought problems here, there are 324 sunny days a year, there is practically no precipitation, so every year we hope for god, that he will send us some water, which will accumulate in our reservoirs and we... will then water the grapes so that the berries will fill out a little. solnechnaya dolina

went through all the paths that could only be found, they made wells, but when they tested the water, it was bitter-salty, that is, it very quickly clogged the drippers, but they installed filters, purified it so that at least something could be given for watering the grapes. recently in crimea there are a lot of peasant farms, very a lot, you can just buy grapes and come try to make wine, you know, it's even a very... good idea that people don't stand still, they develop, and this even spurs us professional winemakers to constantly improve our knowledge, to study, well, to be competitive in the market, because in small wineries with a small amount of grapes it is easier to work and easier to make wine. i asked artificial intelligence

to draw a portrait of a female winemaker, here such a picture, and it seems to me that the most similar to this is the winemaker of the winecraft project anna makovetskaya, look, she also has such a photo shoot, yes, in fact, oh, this is what i like most about this shot, what was this, this is the pressing of mirlo, that is, this is the pulp that remained in the container , it needs to be unloaded from there into the press, so we unloaded it with a shovel through the hatch, well, here in the frame there is only me, but we... changed a large volume of pulp there, this is such a hard job for a winemaker that you have to do everything with your own hands, with a shovel, from a container, well, for some, yes, some work more with their heads, some work with their heads and hands, but i also like it, that is, i got into it for my own pleasure, not just because there was a need, i'm 32 years old, i was born in the city

of sevastopol, i grew up there, when... it was time to choose a profession, who i would be in life, my dad suggested the idea of ​​​​becoming a winemaker, based on the fact that i was a very creative child, but with a technical mindset, and the profession of a winemaker, it ideally combines these two qualities, and i decided to apply to the winemaking department, after college i went to work as a wine processor, came to another plant as a technologist and so gradually, gradually, until i met winecraft. at one of the wineries they allowed me to make my first wine, i had a couple of separate containers there, everything turned out great, that is, i became more confident that i can really make decisions, and it turns out well, so complete freedom has already

appeared here at this production. we have confusion here, a small volume of grape must, which gets to the winery before the main harvest, and from it they make grape juice, which is allowed to ferment, we need this so that the bulk of the grapes, when we press, we have the opportunity to start fermentation almost immediately, large large factories cannot afford this, because there are certain risks associated with it. and we combine work with wild pellets with cultural pellets, depending on the grape variety, on the wine that we want to get. the project was created two friends, vitaly netbalsky, roman polyakov, and so by the will of fate it happened that

they ended up in crimea, roman's father, he took up... home winemaking, that is, conditionally garage winemaking, he infected this, infected everyone around him with winemaking, well, you as a person on whom everything is tied here, how free are you in principle in life in terms of going somewhere, of course, during the season there is no life, personal too, there is none, you only sleep and work, that's all, i have been doing thai boxing for quite a long time. and i have another hobby that brings in additional income is modeling, and periodically i work as a model, sometimes i work as a director - at competitions, shows, in more managerial

positions there are most often men, in executive positions there are more often women, since a woman is a very patient and... hardy creature, they hold on to their jobs for a long time , despite the fact that there are possibly some physical or moral difficulties, well, probably, and the salary is not raised for a long time, salary, yes, in fact, in there are many women in leadership positions in russian winemaking, we came to the skalisty bereg winery in anapa, one of the most technologically advanced in russia, to tell you what a career takeoff can be and what the flip side of success is. what do you think women usually have in their glove compartments, women winemakers, we open it, well , by the way, we have a piece of paper lying around here, this is a list of varieties. rows, plots, yield forecast here, by the way, too, then we look, a refractometer, i always have it with me during the season, when it starts, i expropriate it

i put the labs because i can end up in the vineyard at any time, now we are looking at the maturation of the riesling, we will measure the sugar content, so here we have a cold test, i was asked to see if i am satisfied with this

result, we are looking at the presence of crystals, chardane, which we pumped out of the barrels, just the other day on friday, in order to understand whether we are stabilizing with crystal turbidity or... no, i would not like to do this, because we try to touch the wine less so that its naturalness, naturalness, here you need to delve into all the technological processes, because each stage is very important, i directly communicate with the main ones with the heads of departments, well, and then sometimes i communicate. directly, when necessary with technologists or with an agronomist, also under my command is the chief mechanic, that is , everything that concerns equipment, tractors,

well, that is, all the processes that occur, they occur under my control, irina's subordinate, the company's chief winemaker kirill bardakov, by the way, was one of the heroes of our a series of films about young winemakers, today we processed and pressed chardonnay and now... we are tasting what we got, the must is flowing, the chardonnay is already in the still, our first harvest in the still, not bad, good acidity, it was good that we harvested it early, by yeast, yes, then we will see, well yes, we will decide by yeast, but in principle we want, we know our favorite yeast, kiril pavlovich very carefully monitors cleanliness in production always, ours is always almost perfect, very important, we tasted, immediately washed the tap and we don't go over...

the question is precisely, again, competence and protection of one's own, beliefs, arguments, yes, men are subordinate, maybe to a woman, but i am comfortable working like this, i hope that they are too, the choice of profession occurred in the last, at the stage of the last grades of study at school, namely, probably, after the ninth grade i decided to focus on chemistry, although before... i studied at a math school and thought about being a programmer, but uh, my brother, because he is a programmer, he convinced me, said that programming is it's not a woman's profession, something is not needed, well

, and accordingly i decided to connect my life with food production or, well, with the production of products, by the way, i have a second education, in case i suddenly fail to build a career in the wine industry, my family lives in krasnodar, in fact, in anapa... i myself, so it's rare when they come to me, when they are here, of course i try to devote time to my relatives, in the middle of the week, yes, especially in season, here i have to tell everyone that well, you sorry, the season is the season, so everyone always understands already know that and it is better not to touch irina, she is busy in the season, so there may be weekends, and early late, but there is no burnout because there is constant movement forward. there are many children's cards,

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there is no trigger mechanism. it all started very prosaically in the kishnevsky college of viticulture and winemaking, where i entered after an unsuccessful attempt to become a pharmacist, and one document was not enough, that's where i was attracted by the information that there i would study five chemistry, physcaloid, analytical, chemistry, wine, inorganic, organic, and this is what decided, probably, my fate, but since i am an excellent student in life, i am used to doing... everything with an a plus, then the learning process, of course, for me it was very exciting and interesting, i started as a wine material processor, then i was a master, then a technologist, a microbiologist, before moving here, i practically mastered every area of ​​work at the winemaking enterprise,

here we have the final stage. production of sparkling wine using the classic bottle production method, this is where the final stage of disgorgement takes place, that is, when the neck of the bottle is lowered into the bath until it freezes, the sediment freezes, on the disgorgement apparatus is shot, dosing occurs, if necessary - expedition liqueur, capping, muzzle laying, washing, laying the bottle in the container for adaptation before registration. van davanovna, you came to kuban wine in 2006, and as i read in your interviews, you even had to prove your own professionalism, show character, and once you put your salary on the line insisted on your own, this is the bottle that started my experience working at kuban lino, well, let's start with the fact that it is a regular production.